New Delhi: Ola Electric is recalling 1,441 units of its electric two wheelers. This comes in the wake of incidents of vehicles catching fire, according to a company statement.
The company has stated that it is probing into the fire incident on March 26, in Pune, is ongoing and preliminary assessment found that it was an isolated one.
However it said, “As a pre-emptive measure we will be conducting a detailed diagnostic and health check of the scooters in that specific batch and therefore are issuing a voluntary recall of 1,441 vehicles.”
Further Ola Electric said that scooters are being inspected by their engineers. It said, “These scooters will be inspected by our service engineers and will go through a thorough diagnostics across all battery systems, thermal systems as well as the safety systems.”
They have stated that its battery systems already complies with and is tested for AIS 156, the latest proposed standard for India, in addition to being compliant with the European standard ECE 136.
Recently many incidents of scooters catching fire in various parts of the country forcing manufacturers to recall their vehicles.
Okinawa Autotech had recalled over 3,000 units. PureEV did a similar exercise for around 2,000 units.
The government decided to take action after these incidents occurred. The government decided to form a panel to examine and had warned companies of penalties if they were found to be negligent.
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